| By allowing the worst to occur, the tinderbox of the Balkans will be ignited and the whole continent subsequently engulfed. |
| Cottage country is a tinderbox waiting for an spark to set off the explosion. |
| She closed the tinderbox, snuffing the flames, then settled back down where she was lying before. |
| The Yukon was also a tinderbox with dry conditions and a record warm May to August, tying 1989 as the warmest such period on the books. |
| I flicked open the tinderbox, struggled with the flint several times before getting a light, and held it up with a shaking hand. |
| Even so, an ongoing drought and millions of acres of dead, bark beetle infected trees have turned much of the west into a potential tinderbox. |
